The Battle of Hurtgen Forest (PB)

by Charles Whiting (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.43

  From September 1944 to February 1945, the US army was engaged in a series of fierce battles with German forces for control of the area around the Hurtgen Forest, which would lead the Allies to the Rhine. The campaign was disastrous and thirty thousand US soldiers were killed or wounded in the encounter.

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $14.23

  Between September 1944 and February 1945, 30,000 GIs were either killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army. In this book the author examines the issues involved in an engagement that was censored and omitted from official memoirs at the time. American generals continued pouring men into the Hurtgen Forest after eight infantry and two armoured divisions had failed to dislodge German troops from a network of concrete emplacements among the trees. There was a 50% casualty rate and whole battalions broke down from terror and exhaustion.